The Peckham 2009 Manifesto
In protest at the broadly upheld superstition that the world will end in 2012, in accordance with occultist misreadings of the Mayan long-cycle calendar, the revolutionary literary school Neither Am I announces its intention to jumpstart the apocalypse.
Neither Am I views this absurd belief as symbolic of the popular tendency to privilege mythology and mysticism over empirical science. Neither Am I asserts the primacy of a form of fiction that holds the two in equal standing, giving neither any more weight than any other manmade narrative.
We are appalled that such outmoded views of fictionality not only persist but are institutionalized. This kind of thinking lags scientific and philosophical thought by over a century. As long as these conditions are permitted to continue, there is no hope that our culture will overcome a fundamental and crippling philosophical impasse.
By collapsing consensus reality into patently absurd and obscene fictions, we anticipate that we will be able to render this reality untenable by June 2010 at the latest, and we urge all our comrades throughout the supposedly civilized West to aid us in our eschatonic short-circuit.
Set up.
The new book.
